Prof. Richard Field is a biogeographer and macroecologist with >25 years of research on biodiversity, both theoretical and applied, including on the adequacy of conservation and protected area networks, and the finance of biodiversity. Richard is Editor-in-Chief of Global Ecology and Biogeography, the leading macroecology journal, served 8 years on the Board of The International Biogeography Society, and is a Trustee of the Wallacea Trust, which promotes biodiversity conservation through business engagement and owns a leading method for measuring biodiversity for finance. He is also Chair of the Biodiversity Futures Initiative, which validates biodiversity measurement methodology and verifies data-based biodiversity claims, and is part of the current IPBES Monitoring Assessment. Richard and his colleagues at the University of Nottingham are a core, Task Force member of the Biodiversity Credit Alliance, and were Technical Co-Leads of the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits Measurement Working Group, co-leading the writing of its Design Criteria. He is doing a project with three UN Economic Commissions to produce guidance and toolkits for developing biodiversity credit markets in numerous countries across Africa, West Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.